The colony deals with many pathogens by simply increasing recruitment to
exceed attrition.  A young queen boosts the rate of recruitment.


Ahh I thought she was eluding to something else.   That seems to be the
common trend in beekeeping  Somethings not right,  requeen.  A lot of guys
requeening 2-3 times a year.   Maybe that has something to do with some of
our problems.....

Personaly its not my style.  Hardly requeen at all,  probably less than 20%
a year by my intentions.  Splits and supercedures aside.  Trying to develop
those Tim Ives queens 3-4 years old.

So far had good luck trying to address the issues instead of swapping the
queens constantly.

Charles

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